The Radicals drop the cultural mayor as their mayoral candidate for the municipal elections in Copenhagen.

Radicales drop Mia Nyegaard as their mayoral candidate for the upcoming municipal elections in Copenhagen

Mia Nyegaard, the Cultural and Leisure Mayor of Copenhagen for the Radicales, has been removed as their mayoral candidate for the upcoming municipal elections.

This decision was made at an extraordinary general meeting of the Radicales in Copenhagen, according to Ritzau. The move came after the Radicales group at City Hall expressed their lack of confidence in the politician back in October.

Five out of the five Radicales members of the Copenhagen City Council have lost faith in Nyegaard and wanted her removed as the party's mayoral candidate. The vote was 88 in favor, 43 against, and 6 blank votes. The party confirmed the result.

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Finding a new candidate

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The Radicales now need to find a new mayoral candidate in Copenhagen for the upcoming municipal elections, which are scheduled for next year. According to the meeting invitation, a new mayoral candidate should be found in January, Ritzau reports.

Apart from Mia Nyegaard, Christopher Røhl, Emil Moselund, Kashif Ahmad, and Katrine Kildgaard are the Radicales representatives in the Copenhagen City Council. None of them have announced their intention to run for mayor yet.

It was Emil Moselund who spoke out in October, stating that the Radicales group at City Hall wanted a different mayoral candidate than Mia Nyegaard. The national leadership of the Radicales has refused to intervene in the matter.

In a letter sent to the board in October, it was stated that the lack of confidence, among other things, would lead to a significant change in the staff of Nyegaard's secretariat, which could impact the next election. Altinget reported on this at the time, sharing parts of the letter.

- We cannot deny that neither this nor earlier reports from the secretariat can become a theme in the upcoming election campaign and it will likely overshadow all attempts to share the Radicales narrative and our chance as a party to win support, it read.

Last year, Mia Nyegaard was in the spotlight over labor environment issues, as Frihedsbrevet had reported. This led to a crisis within the party.

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